4K UHD Blu-ray Torrents May Now Be Possible As AACS 2.0 Encryption Has Been Cracked

Earlier today, a copy of The Smurfs 2 UHD Blu-ray disc popped up online, possibly suggesting that the AACS 2.0 encryption technology used to protect current Blu-ray discs has been bypassed for the first time.

The torrent, available via the UltraHDclub torrent tracker, would represent the first time a UHD movie has been ripped from a UHD Blu-ray disc and dumped online, according to a report by TorrentFreak.

You do not need to be a budding pirate to know that there are numerous places online that cater to those who want to get their hands on media that has been posted in such a way, and while HD content has been available for a long time now, UHD movies have been harder to come by. That is because the UHD content available needs to come from online streaming sources as UHD Blu-ray discs cannot be decrypted, or at least they couldn’t.

If this appearance of The Smurfs 2 is indeed real, then something has changed.

The appearance of a torrent that claims to house a Blu-ray copy of The Smurfs 2 film would at least suggest that the AACS 2.0 encryption may have been cracked but until we are told definitively that this is the case, we reserve judgement. What we do know is that UltraHDclub is seemingly very pleased with the release, claiming that it has the “First Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc in the NET!”

Downloaders will need to wait for the 53.30 GB disc to be fully seeded before they can download it though, and due to the sheer size of it, that is not happening quickly. As time ticks on, however, and the release becomes more (in)famous, you can expect that situation to change. If this release is what it claims to be though, filmmakers may be in for a battle against a boom in torrented UHD movies spread out across the web.

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It might be the first 4K source from a BD Disc but it is NOT the first 4K source out there. Who fucking cares if it came from BD?

JEmlay

It says it right in the article!

Onetrack

You could use torrents.. or you could grab it in a few minutes.. 53.63gb

The Smurfs 2 2013 COMPLETE UHD BLURAY-THRONE~DU~
Its on the other thing, why people still use torrents is beyond me.
The movie is awful tho, so why would you.

Sergejs Kravcenko

Well that means you are nub in that question, other streaming services especially so called “web-dl” cucks, comparing to its bitrate and amount of information served. You can’t beat UHD by any service, despite that release there been other releases via capturing technology with HDR metadata from UHD discs, but this is a 1:1 pure copy of the UHD disc, I’m pretty sure its cracked and I really doubt Surfs UHD would have invalidated keys working.

JEmlay

Who the hell said anything about streaming? Did you ignorantly ASSume I was talking about Netflix? No dumbass. I’m talking about 400GB+ sources. I have many terrabytes worth of 4K+ movies and that collection is sadly pretty small.

Bluray discs are VERY compressed. You seem to be under the impression they are not. You are wrong.

Sergejs Kravcenko

’cause your statement is silly, it is NOT the first 4k source out there, if you own 400GB+ sources, then you wouldn’t not be interested in this discussion at all. So you have your own theatre then? 400GB+ sources, what sources are these then? All modern cinemas use media exchange format which usually weighs around 200GB – 250GB and it has 4k FULL resolution 4096 not 3860, so you are either talking shit or either lying, you choose between two of these.

JEmlay

4K UHD has been around for a long time. Just because people are now taking shitty version of it off BD is neither here nor there.

“All modern cinemas use media exchange format which usually weighs around 200GB – 250GB”

WRONG!

Anyway, keep talking shit asshole. It wont do any good. My comment is valid and it stands. I’ll just erase your ass if you keep acting like a fucking punk.